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CALVATIA GIGANTEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Calvatia gigantea mean?
• CALVATIA GIGANTEA (noun)
The noun CALVATIA GIGANTEA has 1 sense:
1. huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight
Familiarity information: CALVATIA GIGANTEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Calvatia gigantea; giant puffball
Hypernyms ("Calvatia gigantea" is a kind of...):
puffball; true puffball (any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature)
Holonyms ("Calvatia gigantea" is a member of...):
Calvatia; genus Calvatia (genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores)
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